On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 01:12:52AM -0300, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:36:00PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > > please go ahead with the upload to unstable and please follow-up to this > > > mail afterwards. > > Thanks Philipp! deliciousapi/1.5.1-1 has just been uploaded. > > After re-reviewing the entire package (not just the debdiff I reviewed > before) I tend to decline this request and will request the removal of > it from testing. > > Rationale: It relies on screen scraping. This is the same case for > releaseforge. So both packages are more similar than I initially > thought. It has been observed that remote websites change. I hold > the assertion that packages relying on websites not changing at all > in structure may not be included in a stable release as they might > get broken too easily. > > If there was actually an API involved all would have been fine, but > like this it should be included in volatile or backports instead. > > Sorry, > Philipp Kern
Philipp, IMHO, SourceForge has been quite stable. That is, in the last 3-4 years, they have made incompatible updates to their site only once or twice. The same could happen with an API. I cannot speak to the stability of del.icio.us, however, so I agree that having a uniform policy toward these sorts of packages benefits the end users. This has me wondering: is there a way to permanently hint releaseforge so that it doesn't go back into testing after the release of Lenny? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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